[1]
طَرَفَ , aor.
طَرِفَ , inf. n.
طَرْفٌ,
He looked from
the outer angle of the eye: or [
he twinkled with
his eye, i. e.]
he put the edge of his eyelid in
motion, or
in a state of commotion, and looked:
(M, TA:) or
الطَّرْفُ signifies
the putting the
eyelids in motion, or
in a state of commotion, in
looking: (Mgh, * TA:) one says,
شَخَصَ بَصَرُهُ فَمَا
يَطْرِفُ [
His eye, or
eyes, has, or
have, become
fixedly open, or
raised, and he does not put his
eyelids in motion, or
does not twinkle with his
eye, or
eyes, in looking]: (TA:) [or] one says,
طَرَفَ البَصَرُ, aor. and inf. n. as above, meaning
the eye, or
eyes, [
twinkled, or]
became in a state
of commotion: (Msb:) [or]
طَرَفَ بَصَرَهُ, (O, K,
TA, and so in a copy of the S,) or
بَصَرُهُ, (so in
one of my copies of the S,) aor. and inf. n. as
above, [
he winked, i. e.]
he closed one of his eyelids
upon the other: (S, O, K: [see also 4:]) or
طَرَفَ بِعَيْنِهِ [in the CK
بعَيْنَيْهِ]
he put his eyelids in
motion, or
in a state of commotion: (K, TA:)
and
طُرِفَتْ عَيْنُهُ, aor.
تُطْرَفُ, inf. n. as above,
his
eyelids were put in motion or
in a state of commotion, by looking. (As, TA.) [Another meaning of
طَرَفَ بَصَرَهُ, and another of
طُرِفَتْ said
of the eye, will be found below.]
عَيْنٌ تَطْرِفُ,
signifying
An eye that [
twinkles, or]
puts the
eyelid in motion, or
in a state of commotion, with
looking, is used for
ذُو عَيْنٍ تَطْرِفُ, meaning (assumed tropical:)
a
living being. (Mgh.)
مَا بَقِيَتْ مِنْهُمْ عَيْنٌ تَطْرِفُ
[
There remained not of them one having
an eye
twinkling] means (tropical:)
they died, (O, K, TA,) or
(O, in the K erroneously “ and, ” TA)
they were
slain. (O, K, TA.) ―
2-b2- [Also
He looked: for]
الطَّرْفُ is used as meaning
the act of looking (Er-Rághib, Msb, TA) because the putting in motion
of the eyelid constantly attends that act: (Er-Rághib, TA:) and
طَرَفْتُهُ, inf. n. as above, signifies
I saw, or
I looked at or
towards, him, or
it; syn.
أَبْصَرْتُهُ. (Ham p. 111.) It is said in
the Kur [xiv. 44]
لَا يَرْتَدُّ إِلَيْهِمْ طَرْفُهُمْ [
Their look
shall not revert to them; i. e.,
shall not be withdrawn by them from that upon which they shall
look]. (S, O.) And in the same [xxvii. 40],
أَنَا آتِيكَ بِهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَرْتَدٌ إِلَيْكَ طَرْفُكَ, [meaning, in
like manner,
I will bring it to thee before thy
look at a thing
shall revert to thee, or
be withdrawn by thee therefrom: or,] accord. to Fr,
meaning
before a thing shall be brought to thee
from the extent of thy vision: or, as some say,
in the space in which thou shalt open thine eye
and then close it: or
in the space in which one
shall reach the extent of thy vision. (O.) And
one says,
نَظَرَ فُلَانٌ بِطَرْفٍ خَفِىٍّ [
Such a one
looked with a furtive glance], meaning,
contracted
his eyelids over the main portion of his eye and
looked with the rest of it, by reason of shyness or
fear. (Har p. 565.) And
تَطْرِفُ الرِّجَالَ [app.
meaning
She looks at the men] is said of a woman
who does not keep constantly to one. (TA. [See
مَطْرُوفَةٌ.]) And
تَطْرِفُ الرِّيَاضَ رَوْضَةً بَعْدَ رَوْضَةٍ
[app. meaning
She looks at the meadows, meadow
after meadow, to pasture upon them in succession,] is said of a she-camel such as is termed
طَرِفَةٌ [q. v.]. (As, TA.) ―
2-b3-
طَرَفْتُ عَيْنَهُ, (S, O,
Msb, in the K
طَرَفَ عَيْنَهُ,) aor. and inf. n. as
above, (Msb, TA,)
I (S, O, Msb)
hit, struck,
smote, or
hurt, his eye with a thing, (S, O, Msb,
K, [in the CK
شَىْءٌ is put for
بِشَىْءٍ,]) such as
a garment or some other thing, (TA,)
so that it
shed tears: and one says of the eye,
طُرِفَتْ. (S,
O, K. [See another explanation of the latter
in the first sentence.]) Ziyád, in reciting a
خُطْبَة, said,
قَدْ طَرَفَتْ أَعْيُنَكُمُ الدُّنْيَا وَسَدَّتْ
مَسَامِعَكُمُ الشَّهَوَاتُ [
The good of the present world
hath smitten your eyes, and appetences have
stopped your ears]. (O.) And one says
طَرَفَهُ
and ↓
طرّفهُ meaning
He, or
it, struck, smote, or
hurt, his eye. (TA.) And
طَرَفَهَا الحُزْنُ وَالبُكَآءُ
Grief and weeping hurt it (the eye),
so that it
shed tears. (TA.) And
طَرَفَهَا حُبُّ الرِّجَالِ The
love of the men smote her eye, so that she raised
her eyes and looked at every one that looked at
her; as though a
طَرْفَة [or red spot of blood], or
a stick or the like, hurt her eye. (Az, TA.) ―
2-b4-
الطَّرْفُ signifies also
The slapping with the hand
(K, TA)
upon the extremity of the eye. (TA.)
―
2-b5- Then it became applied to signify
The striking
upon the head. (TA.) ―
2-b6-
طَرَفَهُ عَنْهُ signifies
He
turned him, or
it, away, or
back, from him, or
it.
(S, O, K.) Hence the saying of a poet, (S, O,
TA,) 'Amr Ibn-Abee-Rabee'ah, (TA,) or a
young woman of the Ansár, (O,)
إِنَّكَ وَٱللّٰهِ لَذُو مَلَّةٍ
يَطْرِفُكَ الأَدْنَى عَنِ الأَبْعَدِ
so in the S; but the right reading is
عَنِ الأَقْدَمِ,
for the next verse ends with
تَصْرِمِى: (IB, TA:)
[i. e.
Verily thou, by Alláh, art one having a
weariness: the nearer turns thee away, or
back,
from the older:] meaning, he turns away, or
back, thy sight from the latter: i. e. thou takest
the new (
تَسْتَطْرِفُ ↓
الجَدِيدَ), and forgettest the
old. (S, TA.) You say,
طَرَفْتُ البَصَرَ عَنْهُ (S *
Msb)
I turned away, or
back, the sight from him,
or
it. (Msb.) And
اِطْرِفٌ بَصَرَكَ Turn away, or
back, thy sight from that upon which it has fallen
and to which it has been extended. (TA.) ―
2-b7-
And
طَرَفَهُ عَنَّا شُغْلٌ Business, or
occupation, withheld him from us. (TA.) ―
2-b8- And
طَرَفَهُ He drove
him away. (Sh, TA.) ＝
1-A2-
طَرِفَتْ, (S, O, K,)
[aor.
طَرَفَ ,] inf. n.
طَرَفٌ; (TA;) and ↓
تطرّفت;
She (a camel)
depastured the sides, or
lateral
parts, (
أَطْرَاف,)
of the pasturage, not mixing with
the other she-camels, (S, O, K,)
tasting, and not
keeping constantly to one pasturage. (Har p. 569.) ＝
1-A3-
طَرُفَ, (S, O, Msb, K,) inf. n.
طَرَافَةٌ, (O, TA,)
It (property)
was recently, or
newly, acquired:
(S, O, K: *) or
it (a thing)
was good [
and recent
or
new or
fresh]. (Msb.) ―
2-b2- And the same verb,
(S, K,) inf. n. as above, (S, TA,)
He was such
as is termed طَرِيفٌ [and
طَرِفٌ q. v.] as meaning
the
contr. of قُعْدُد. (S, K.)